Purchasing tickets for your favorite entertainers’ Las Vegas Strip residency shows requires a strategy to take advantage of presale dates and times to get ahead of the general public on-sale dates.
Tickets for the most popular residencies will sell fast in the presales, leaving less desirable seat locations for the general public sales.
Fans who were asleep at the wheel for the presales will need to turn to the secondary market, or ticket brokers, and much higher prices to secure the best seats once presale buyers have snapped them up.
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Once a show is sold out, the secondary market is the only option for securing seats for a desired show, and those tickets will often rise in price based on consumer demand.Â
Everyone, from ticketholders to ticket brokers, is disappointed whenever a Vegas residency headliner postpones or cancels a show due to illness, injury, or another reason.
Residency show cancellations seem to happen every year, and it has been more common since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Superstar singer Adele originally planned a 24-show âWeekends With Adeleâ residency at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace set for Jan. 21 through April 16, 2022, but had to postpone those shows as members of her crew contracted Covid-19 and some of the set pieces designed for the performance were not ready.
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Adele postponed the residency to Nov. 18, 2022, and extended the original 24 shows to 100 performances, closing the residency on Nov. 23, 2024.Â
Adele also had to reschedule 10 shows between March 1-30, 2024, due to illness and performed them from Oct. 25 to Nov. 23.
Other superstar residencies that have postponed performances since Adele’s initial rescheduling include the late Jimmy Buffet, who passed away on Sept. 1, 2023, but had rescheduled shows on Oct. 8 and Oct. 15, 2022, to March 4 and March 11, 2023.
Concerns over a possible new outbreak of the Covid pandemic led the comedy team of Steve Martin and Martin Short to postpone their co-headlining shows at Wynn Resorts’ Encore Theater on Sept. 22-23, 2023.
Popular singer Christina Aguilera postponed two shows on Jan. 5-6, 2024, at Voltaire in Apollo Global Management’s (APO)  the Venetian Resort Las Vegas suffering from a case of the flu. Aguilera rescheduled those shows for April 12-13 and extended her residency for an additional 10 shows, ending on Aug. 3.
Finally, legendary rock band Santana has canceled the first eight shows of its 2025 residency at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, beginning Jan. 22, due to frontman Carlos Santana breaking a finger in an accidental fall at his home in Hawaii, according to the band’s website Santana.com.
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The canceled shows were scheduled for Jan. 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, Feb. 1, and 2. The shows have not yet been rescheduled.
Santana is set to perform the remainder of the residency after he recovers on May 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 and 25.
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“I am sorry to say that Carlos was out taking a walk at his vacation home in Kauai. He took a hard fall, and broke his little finger on his left hand,” spokesman Michael Vrionis, president of Universal Tone Management, said in a statement.
“He had to have pins inserted in the finger. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to play guitar for approximately six weeks. Doctors do say he will recuperate fully,” the band’s manager Vrionis said.
“Carlos is doing well and is anxious to be back on stage soon. He just needs to heal,” Vironis said. “Santana profoundly regrets these postponements of his upcoming performances, but accidents happen, and his health is our number one concern. He is looking forward to seeing all of his fans very soon.”
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